January 3, 2014 9:57pm ESTJanuary 3, 2014 9:57pm ESTTop seed David Ferrer is drawn to play eighth-seeded Dutchman Robin Haase in the Heineken Open quarterfinals in Auckland.David Ferrer(AP Photo)

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Published on Jan. 3, 2014

Jan. 3, 2014

Top seed David Ferrer is drawn to play eighth-seeded Dutchman Robin Haase in the Heineken Open quarterfinals in Auckland.

The Spaniard has been in patchy form of late with a second-round exit to German Daniel Brands in his first tournament of 2014 at the Qatar Open — with Brands a potential opponent for world number three Ferrer in the semifinals.

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The first four seeds — Ferrer, Germany's Tommy Haas, America's John Isner and South Africa's Kevin Anderson — have all received byes to the second round of the tournament, which starts on Monday.

However, Haas and Anderson could face tricky second-round matches with the German potentially meeting rising American Jack Sock while the South African could take on former world number eight Marcos Baghdatis.